News
8-Sep-2010
Canadian Hadassah WIZO Supporter Nathalie Guez has established the Myriam Libratti Memorial Fund to create for Hadassah Hospital-Ein Kerem a stone rendition of a sculpture she designed in memory of her mother, Myriam Libratti. Mrs. Libratti worked at Hadassah as a midwife for 10 years.
8-Sep-2010
Oliver Berben, renowned film producer/director, and new member of Hadassah Germany’s Board of Governors, visited the Hadassah Medical Center in July.
8-Sep-2010
Celebrating the Bat Mitzvahs of four daughters with a trip to Israel in July, the Sandler, Wengrowsky, and Drucker extended family from Monterrey, Mexico visited the Hadassah Medical Center. Dr. Yuval Weiss, pictured with the girls above, welcomed the family of Hadassah supporters.
8-Sep-2010
Rebecca Fascovich, who was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis 20 years ago, was helped by a clinical trial at the Hadassah Medical Center, and has expressed her deep appreciation with a Mezuzah donation to the new Sarah Wetsman Davidson Tower.
8-Sep-2010
Reaffirming their commitment to Hadassah, David and Sally Abadi, young leaders in Hadassah Panama, have pledged funds for a two-patient room in the Surgical Oncology and Vascular Surgery West Wing of the new Sarah Wetsman Davidson Tower at the Hadassah Medical Center. “We are very happy to know, every day, that we are doing a great mitzvah,” says David, “donating this room that will help to heal so many people of all faiths and ethnicities, bringing peace through medicine to the land of Israel.” Join Sally and David Abadi. Please don’t wait for the future. Help to build it!
1-Sep-2010
At the end of July, for the first time in Israel and only the fifth time in the world, a woman with a heart transplant delivered healthy twins—at the Hadassah Medical Center.
1-Sep-2010
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ), under the leadership of its president, Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, has donated one million dollars for a Trauma Intensive Care Unit at the Hadassah Medical Center.
1-Sep-2010
Dr. Uzi Izhar, head of the Hadassah Medical Center’s General Thoracic Surgery Unit, together with Dr. Mark Ginsburg, a cardiothoracic surgeon from Columbia Presbyterian Hospital (New York) have performed Hadassah’s first transplant of a pacemaker into a man’s diaphragm, which enabled him to breathe without the ventilator he had been attached to for a decade.
1-Sep-2010
When during Sabbath dinner, their father’s speech suddenly became garbled and he complained of weakness on his right side, his daughters rushed him to the Hadassah Medical Center’s Judy and Sidney Swartz Center for Emergency Medicine, where Hadassah’s cutting-edge clot-bursting procedure saved his life, leaving no neurological damage.
1-Sep-2010
Hadasit, the Hadassah Medical Center’s technology transfer company, has signed a first-of-its-kind agreement with Bezalel Labs Ltd., the technology transfer company of Jerusalem’s Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, to develop and commercialize products based on students' product designs.